Map - pre battle images

**macsen rufus** · 04-16-2007, 17:35

Hi R'as - well, my first .lbm "project" is to make some new battle unit icons. I've got my review panel icons as bifs, no problems, I just need to copy these into UP I guess. I hope that means the palette will be okay? I usually make my bmps in Photoshop, where I can set the palette up (at least enough to get the faction colours and transparencies right

) and I have quite a few palettes saved for the BMPs so it makes it easier converting between formats etc. Is it possible to load bifs into UP, or do you need to go through BMPs along the way? I think I did try loading some BMPs in when I first got UP installed, but the palettes got mixed somehow, and nothing looked quite right... anyway, I'll take another look and see what problems I had.

I also will need to make some map images as well, but that's a little down the way yet. The battle icons are the urgent ones as I've got too many units with the same cloned lbms and it gets confusing in the heat of battle

**R'as al Ghul** · 04-16-2007, 21:14

We make proper .lbm's with GDS, Graphic Display system by Photodex.
some lbm's clike the mapimages don't have indexed transparencies, for those you can use UP but UP doesn't save the palette entries that you need.

I can't find a download link, send me a PM with an email address and I'll send you the GDS program.